322 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



Imperatores Valerianus et Qallienus Augusti et Valerianus No- 

 hilissimus Ccssar cohort I septimcB centurias a solo restituerimt per 

 Desticium Juham Virmn Clarissimun Legatum Aiigustorum Pro Prcc- 

 tore et Vitulasmm Latiniamim Legatum Legiootis secundce Augustce 

 curante JDomitio Potentino PrcRfecto Legionis ejusdem. 



The date is between A.D. 254-260. See Brit. Rom. Inscrip., p. 

 125, and Notes on Latin Inscrip., part x. 



Desticius Juba is tbe latest Governor named in dated inscriptions 

 found in Britain. He is also mentioned in inscriptions found on the 

 continent: see Museum Veronense, cccxxvii., 2, and Orelli, n. 4913. 

 In the list, given in Mon, Hist. Brit., p. Ixxv., the next in chrono- 

 logical order is Victorinus, dated "277?" and Zosimus and Zonaras 

 are referred to as authorities for the insertion of his name ; but it 

 cannot be inferred from the statements of either that Victorinus was 

 ever Governor of the island. 



Vopiscus informs us that Britain, in the reign of the Emperor 

 Cams, i.e. A.D. 282-283, was under Carinus, as Csesar. 



From A.D. 287 to A.D. 293, Britain was ruled by Carausius, who, 

 from A.D. 290, was recognized as Augustus ; his murderer, AUectus, 

 held the island until A.D, 296, when, on his defeat and death, the 

 authority of Constantius was established. 



IV. — During the fourth Centvry. 



In A.D. 306, the Emperor Constantius died at York, and was 

 succeeded by his son, Constautine the Great. In his reign, in his 

 consulship with Licinius Caesar, = A.D. 319, Pacatianus was his Fie- 

 arius in the island, as we learn from the Theodosian Code, xi., 7, 2, 



Our only authority for the next fifty years is Aram.ianus Maicelliuus,^ 



/md his statements are very meagre. In xxx.. 7, 5, he mentions 



Gratianus Funarius, the father of the Emperor Valentinian, who 



"Comes prsefuit rei castrensi per Africam *** et multo postea pari 



potestate Britannicum rexit exercitum." He is regarded as Governor 



by Horsley, Brit. Rom., in A.D. 353, and by Ed. Mon. Hist. Brit., 



p. 139, in "A.D. 350 ;" but it is plain that he was not Ficarius, but 



Comes rei militaris. See Ammianus Marcellinus, vol. iii., p. 455, 



\. Erfurdt. 



n xiv., 5, 6, Martinus is noticed as holding the official rank in 



■n of pro pi'CRfectis, and is also, in the same chapter, called 



